Happily Ever After

"And they lived happily ever after," Mummy says and closes the book. My sister is already asleep, and so I look at Mummy and ask her if she can read the story again?

"No. Time for bed, come on." she says and tucks my sister in. Daddy usually reads us the stories at bedtime but he is working, and so Mummy is reading tonight.

I got to pick the story from the shelf.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" Mummy says to me as I walk out of my sister's bedroom across the yellow carpet and go towards my bed.

I don't wanna go to sleep...

"Night," I say and head towards my room.

"Karrrren," Mummy says slowly, and I turn around. She is pointing at the bathroom. I have to brush my teeth.

I walk over to the sink and Mummy sits on the tub and watches me, to make sure I do it ok. I pull out my little yellow stool and step up to reach my toothbrush.

"Do you need help with the toothpaste?" Mummy asks.

"No! I can do it!" I tell her. I'm a big girl. I don't need her help!

The toothpaste is tricky, but I only drop a little bit in the sink.

"Don't make a mess," Mummy says. I think she's tired.

"Mummy," I say to her. She points at my toothbrush and so I start to brush my teeth. Mummy tells me to rinse out the sink when I'm done so it is clean for the next person. When I finish putting back my stool I walk over to Mummy and give her a hug.

"Mummy, will I live happily ever after?" I say.

"Is that why you like the story?" she asks and then takes my pony tail out so she can brush my hair.

"Yes." I say to her. I like the story because the girl is so pretty and the Prince is so handsome and he loves her like Daddy loves Mummy.

"I want to be a Princess when I grow up," I tell Mummy as she brushes the knots out of my hair.

"You can be anything you want to be," she says to me and kisses me on the forehead. "There, all done. Off to bed."

I tell Mummy to leave the light on in the hallway because I don't like it when the upstairs is dark. She says she will leave the light on in the bathroom and only close the door a little. I think that will be ok.

I crawl into my bed under my Rainbow Brite covers and look out the window at the stars and the clouds in the sky. I wonder what I will be when I grow up? I hope it is a Princess. Princesses marry the Princes and live happily ever after.

And I want to live happily ever after too.




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